\u201cAfter 4 years of German au pairs, we felt the German language was well grounded in our twins as I am able to continue this bilingual upbringing non-stop after work and on the weekends. The German au pairs brought my girls the \u201cfun\u201d aspects of the German language\u00a0by making it\u00a0come alive with creative craft activities and all the fun outing activities, whereas I was able to reinforce all their German \u00a0learnings through reading and more traditional teaching.\u00a0 So in our most recent au pair cycle renewal, we decided to expand the twins learning\u00a0with two additional languages which had been privately tutored up to this past summer.<\/p>\n
Since\u00a0August 2012,\u00a0\u00a0we have a native Spanish\u00a0 speaking au pair and a Mandarin speaking au pair who split the longer work days that I have. The twins know very well that Spanish is spoken only with Jenny Quintana and Mandarin is spoken only with Yu Jue Wang. Very recently, my husband remarked that the girls don\u2019t stop speaking Spanish!!!\u00a0 Basically, chatterboxes!! Mandarin is their fourth language,\u00a0and they love singing and engaging in the very funny children\u2019s stories from China. Yu Jue makes everything very amusing in Mandarin and the girls really like being challenged by her. It\u2019s a big puzzle\u00a0 and game to them!!<\/div>\n
At 4 and half years, learning languages is just pure fun!\u00a0\u00a0In short, the cultural enrichments stemming from understanding the language itself are\u00a0an excellent foundation for all the years of global awareness and travel yet to enter into our twins lives.\u00a0 Our au pairs have and\u00a0will be giving our girls a gift of a life time and we are so humbly grateful for these opportunities!\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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